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Friday, March 2nd, 2018
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය මාධ්ය ඒකකය ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රය තඹුත්තේගම පැවති ගොවි උද්ඝෝෂණය පහරදී මර්ධනය කිරීමට උත්සහ දැරීම සහ උද්ඝෝෂකයින් අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීම තරයේ හෙළා දකින බව ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රය පවසයි. එමෙන්ම මෙම ගොවි උද්ඝෝෂණය අතරතුරදී පොලිසියට සහ රථවාහන වලට පහරදීමේ සිදුවීම පිළිබඳව දැඩිව අවධානය යොමු කළ යුතු බව ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ […]
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island The UNHRC’s High Level Segment is in session now, and is due to discuss Sri Lanka’s progress on the implementation of the Resolutions that this governmenteagerly co-sponsored in 2015 and 2017. Thereport of its progress is due to be presented later in the session, but one of the […]
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
Lasantha’s bones are in Fonseka’s closet – Ajith Prasanna (English)
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
Courtesy The Island February 26, 2018, 9:21 pm Apropos the Sunday Island lead story former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has issued the following statement: “My attention is drawn to the lead story of The Sunday Island of 25th February 2018, under the caption “Police cover up in Lasantha murder emerge after key arrest”. They story […]
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Sunday, February 25th, 2018
KONARA WANIGASEKARA Kotte Courtesy The Island Why has Sri Lankan military attaché, Brig. P. Fernando, been recalled? Has the government gone bonkers? When did it start taking instructions from the British? Something that Dr ANS Kulasinghe told the Plant & Equipment (P&E) Engineer at Polgolla comes to mind. When did you start taking instructions from the […]
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Sunday, February 25th, 2018
By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana A group of Sri Lankan nationals today staged a protest in front of the Palace of Westminster, the seat of the British Parliament, against the decision to recall Sri Lanka’s defence attaché in the UK, Brigadier Priyanka Fernando. The protest was organized by the organisation Patriotic Sri Lankans in Britain and was […]
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Saturday, February 24th, 2018
Chairman, Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement Our organisation, The Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement, is extremely alarmed by secret defence reports written by our adversaries, the US, UK, which accuse our Sri Lankan Armed Forces of being responsible for the perishing of civilians during the last phases of the war with no proof whatsoever to prove such […]
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
ජන බල ප්රවෘත්ති රුසියාවේ හිටපු තානාපතිට එරෙහිව නැවතත් රතු නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කර ඇති බව ශ්රී ලංකා පොලිසිය විසින් යහපාලන නායකයන්ට හේත්තු ගැන්වීමට පසු ඉන්ටර්පොල් රතු වරෙන්තුවක් නිකුත් කල බවට තොරතුරු රැගෙන ජේෂ්ඨ අතිරේඛ සොලිස්ටර් ජෙනරාල් යසන්ත කෝදාගොඩ මහතා හා පොලිස් මුල්ය අපරාධ කොඨඨාශයේ අධ්යක්ෂ පොලිස් අධිකාරි පී.කේ.ඩී.ප්රියන්ත මහතා ඇතුඵ පිරිස 20 දින යළි බුඩායි නගරයට […]
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය උදයාංග වීරතුංග – රුසියාවේ හිටපු ශ්රී ලංකා තානාපති. 2018 පෙබරවාරි 20 වෙනිදා පෙබරවාරි 04 දින ඩුබායි හීදී එරට බලධාරීන් මාව රදවාගෙන සිටීමත්, පසුව මුදාහරිමත් ලංකාවේ කවුරුත් හොදින් දන්නා පුවතකි. ශ්රී ලංකා රජය විසින් මට එරෙහිව ඉන්ටර්පොල් රතු නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කිරීමට සුදානම් බවට සාවද්ය තොරතුරු ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම නිසා එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්යයේ බලධාරීන් විසින් මා […]
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
Thilanka Kanakarathna Courtesy The Daily Mirror Although the yahapalana government is attempting to obtain an Interpol ‘Red Warrant’ on him it had withdrawn some 150 some such warrants including those issued on former LTTE terrorists because of the influence by Tamil politicians, former envoy Udayanga Weeratunga said today. He said in a statement that he was […]
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today When a foreign delegate lands in Sri Lanka, the Tamil National Alliance wastes no time in lamenting to them about the delay in installing the new Constitution. When Prince Edward, the Earl of Essex, came on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II for the 70th Independence celebrations, it was no different. […]
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Friday, February 9th, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Army Commander Mahesh Senanayake said that they would not be conducting an inquiry the actions of the Defence Attache of the Sri Lankan High Commission in UK Brigadier Priyanka Fernando after he was spotted making a throat slitting gesture towards protesters who thronged the Embassy office in the UK. “On the […]
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2018
උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින “සිවිල් වැසියන් 40000ක් මියගිය බවට කරන ප්රකාශ මහ බොරුවක්” මයිකල් මොරිස් හෙවත් නේස්බි සාමිවරයා බ්රිතාන්ය සාමි මණ්ඩලයේ ප්රධානතම ක්රියාකාරියෙකි. 1975 වසරේදී ඔහු ශ්රී ලංකාව සඳහා වූ සර්වපාක්ෂික පාර්ලිමේන්තු කණ්ඩායම ආරම්භ කරනු ලැබීය. නේස්බි සාමිවරයා 2014 ජුනි මස දිනෙක හිටපු ඇමරිකානු ජනාධිපති බරක් ඔබාමා දෙවැනි ජගත් සංග්රාමයට සහභාගි වූ යුද විරුවන් සම්බන්ධව කළ […]
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Sunday, January 14th, 2018
උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ඩොලර් මිලියන 15ක් අවි මිලයට ගැනීමට ලබාදුන් ස්විස් කොටි නායක රගුපති ඇතුළු 13කට නඩු ස්විස්ටර්ලන්තය තුළ කොටි සංවිධානය තහනම් නැත. මේ නිසා ස්විස් කෝකියකු වූ රගුපති නමැත්තා ස්විස්ටර්ලන්තයේ කොටි ශාඛාවේ ප්රධානියා ලෙස ක්රියාකරයි. ස්විස් කොටි ක්රියාකාරීන් ජීනිවා සුරිච් බාසල් ලුසොන් – වින්ටතුර් ඇතුළු ප්රදේශ රැසක අරමුදල් එකතු කරද්දී ස්විස් පොලිසිය නිහඬව සිටියේය. […]
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Sunday, January 14th, 2018
මනෝඡ් අබයදීර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින මාස දහයකට ආසන්න කාලයක් නිරපාරදේ රිමාන්ඩ් ගත කර සිටි කොමදෝරු ඩී. පී. කේ. දසනායකට සහ කමාන්ඩර් සුමිත් රණසිංහ ඇතුලු නාවික හමුදා විරුවන්ට පසුගියදා ඇප ලැබුණි. යහපාලනයේ ඊලාම්ගැති ප්රතිපත්තිය රට ඉදිරියේ තබමින් නාවික හමුදාවේ වීර පිරිස මාස දහයක් පුරා හරිහමන් හේතුවක් නොමැතිව රිමාන්ඩ්ගත වී සිටියේය. දෙසැම්බර් 4 වෙනිදා සිට 14 වෙනිදා […]
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Sunday, January 7th, 2018
BY RALPH VAN DOORN http://blogs.worldbank.org Imagine there is a small fire in your house: someone forgot to put out a cigarette stub and accidentally set your rubbish bin on fire. You will need just one bucket of water to put it out. But up the ante, and it is no longer possible for an individual to handle […]
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2017
සමන් ගමගේ උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින විඡේකාන්තන් හිටපු එල්ටීටීඊ සමාජිකයෙකි. කොටි සාමාජිකයකුව සිටියදී වන්නි මානුෂීය මෙහෙයුම අවසන් අදියරට ළඟා වන තෙක්ම හේ ශ්රී ලංකා ආරක්ෂක හමුදාවන්ට එරෙහිව හේ සටන් කළේය. දැන් ඇතැමුන්ට බරපතළ ගැටලුවක් මතුවනවා විය හැකිය. ඒ “දිවයින රණවිරු” පිටුවේ කොටි ත්රස්තවාදියකු ගැන කතා කරන්නේ ඇයිදැයි ලෙසිනි. එහෙත් විඡේකාන්තන් යනු මුලදී එල්ටීටීඊ සාමාජිකයකුව සිටියද පසුව නාවික […]
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2017
Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror When the case where former navy spokesman D.K.P. Dissanayake was an accused was taken up for hearing before the Fort Magistrate Court, a key witness the CID had changed several parts of his initial statement and requested that he be allowed to made a personal statement in Court. Mr. Dissanayake […]
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2017
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New York, December 20 (Reuter): Yanghee Lee, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, has been denied permission to visit Myanmar. had been due to visit in January to assess human rights across Myanmar, including abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State. But Myanmar had told her she was no longer welcome, she said, […]
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Monday, December 18th, 2017
Chairman, Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement Our organisation, The Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement, is extremely alarmed by attempts even by sections of the Sri Lankan media and even patriotic organisations urging the Sri Lankan Government to accept secret defence reports written by our adversaries, the US, UK imperialists, which accuse our Sri Lankan Armed Forces of […]
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Sunday, December 17th, 2017
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Chandrika Dassanayake, wife of Commodore D. K. P. Dassanayake, who has been remanded since July over his alleged involvement in eleven wartime disappearances, yesterday told The Island that she had handed over letters on behalf of her husband as well as Commander Sumith Ranasinghe, to UN Resident Representative in […]
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Friday, December 15th, 2017
Courtesy Gulf Times The United Nations yesterday urged the Sri Lankan government to urgently implement reforms to end war-time arbitrary detention and strengthen independent monitoring of tough legislation. Sri Lanka has used the 1979 Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to pursue a tough line to prevent aiding and abetting terrorism in the island nation’s long […]
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Friday, December 15th, 2017
Prensa Latina Colombo, Dec 15 (Prensa Latina) The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, visiting Sri Lanka, today requested reforms to address the excessive use of pretrial detention and update the current legal framework. The delegation of that international organization declared in a statement that it visited prisons, police stations, institutions for minors, migrants and […]
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Friday, December 15th, 2017
Courtesy Adaderana The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has identified significant challenges to the enjoyment of the right to personal liberty in Sri Lanka, resulting in arbitrary detention across the country. The experts recognize positive initiatives, including engagement with UN human rights mechanisms, as well as the recent accession to the Optional Protocol to […]
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Thursday, December 14th, 2017
ALI SUKHANVER ‘A foreign tourist is someone traveling abroad for at least twenty-four hours’, defined the League of Nations in 1936. The United Nations did a little amendment in the definition in 1945 by extending the maximum stay to six months. However, be it a stay for twenty four hours or for six months, every […]
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
Avant Guard – How it was destroyed by Yahapalanaya Must listen
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 12, 2017, 8:25 pm Sri Lanka Navy celebrated its 67th anniversary last Friday (Dec 9) with Vice Admiral Sirimevan Ranasinghe at the helm. Ranasinghe succeeded Vice Admiral Travis Sinniah last October amidst simmering controversy over Sri Lanka’s decision to acquire a frigate from Russia, nine years after the successful […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2017
Courtesy The Island Former Navy Chief of Staff Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera yesterday told The Island that a three-member UN delegation now on a visit here should visit military personnel, including Commodore D. K. P. Dassanayake and Commander Sumith Ranasinghe remanded at the maximum security Welikada Prison over their alleged involvement in wartime abductions. Weerasekera […]
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2017
By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy Ceylon Today Ever since the end of the civil war in 2009, there has been a debate on the need for security sector reforms in Sri Lanka. With the defeat of the Rajapaksa administration and with the United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) promising such reforms, the debate has rekindled. The […]
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Monday, December 11th, 2017
Courtesy The Island December 11, 2017, 10:37 pm Lord Naseby has expressed disappointment over the British High Commission, in Colombo, callously dismissing wartime dispatches from its own Defence Attache, Colonel Anton Gash. Apropos a response from the British High Commission in Colombo to a query raised by the The Island, in its Dec 5, 2017 […]
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